Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not condemn empiricism outright , merely its substitution for reality . |
| 2 | The problem with the Hollywood film industry was not so much its desire for profit as its concern with other things , such as power , responsibility and morality . |
| 3 | For a moment he imagined he was in another world , a simple uncomplicated world : a world where there was no place down below in the valley where men were being prepared for war ; that there was no place in Northumberland where a woman sat in a room all day with only her thoughts for company ; that there was no one called Carrie Smith ; that the world had dwindled and there was only this secluded garden and a secluded house , as had been said , with the hills to the back of it and the river at its feet and two women so unalike , yet alike : so understanding , so thoughtful of each other , and not only of each other , but of him . |
| 4 | And , with his words ringing in her ears , she fled up the stairs , not relaxing until she was warmly cocooned in bed , with only her thoughts for company . |
| 5 | Then the maiden alone , with only her melancholy for company . |
| 6 | They had true grievances to settle and were ready to lay down their lives for vengeance . |
| 7 | Early in 1987 , a memo was circulated to all Harvard staff assuring them that Harvard would still be in business that time the following year and that appeal options would be taken up , should the Stock Exchange turn down their application for membership . |
| 8 | They use only their fore-wings for flight . |
| 9 | Faced with such evidence , Marc Thompson — an IMS research fellow who worked on both studies — believes that the Department of Health should tone down its enthusiasm for PRP in the health service , despite the Citizens ' Charter pledge to introduce merit pay into the public sector . |
| 10 | But they wo n't be able to deal with their main sources of production , as er Professor Bradshaw said there , they 're going to have absolutely you 've got no control over the track on on which they operate , and they ar going to have to hire their carriages from and rolling stock from a separate leasing company , so their room for manoeuvre is limited to say the least . |
| 11 | Even so their search for quality evidently needs some sharpening . |
| 12 | At the same time as the number of old people in the population is rising , several factors are operating that have tended to reduce the ability of the family to cater for the needs of old people , especially their needs for care and companionship . |
| 13 | It was n't entirely his thirst for knowledge that had made him insist on driving north to Chanchán . |
| 14 | In fact , he may have already turned down his opportunity for advancement . |
| 15 | Ray Illingworth was surely not exaggerating when he said that Barrington ‘ laid down his life for cricket ’ . |
| 16 | A FORMER British bobby is prepared to lay down his life for superstar Whitney Houston . |
| 17 | He kept remarking on Jeremy 's resourcefulness : shreds of silver indicated that he had used his survival blanket , and he had also stuffed leaves down his trousers for insulation . |
| 18 | I like to think that the huge and impressive list of volunteers , who helpfully filled in our Appeal for Time forms , may also represent a positive reaction to the tragic news of the past year . |
| 19 | As presenter you have to give much of your attention to your active involvement in the performance , and so your capacity for evaluation is limited . |
| 20 | They asked their countrymen to inform the authorities of their arrival and pass on their request for asylum , the report added . |
| 21 | There had been a current of antipathy to the strict Calvinist view of the child throughout the seventeenth century ; and the concept that , given the right environment and the proper course of education , compassion and benevolence , the essential goodness of the child would triumph over its propensity for evil , already had a longish history . |
| 22 | VWAG moved that service be quashed , arguing that VWoA was not its agent for service , and that an attempt to serve process on an agent in Illinois violated the Hague Convention . |
| 23 | Meanwhile his passion for sailing was developing by cruising and sailing on the inland waters of the Thames . |
| 24 | It is largely our need for electricity and transport and our demand for consumer goods that ultimately leads to acid rain . |
| 25 | DW is not your insurer for use of the Program . |
| 26 | The little black cricket-bat GL model is still my favourite for recording , and the M-series ones are still the main stage guitars . |
| 27 | Their brightest personality , bringing in plenty of votes and therefore money , is a deputy who , under the professional name of Cicciolina , takes off her clothes for reward . |
| 28 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 29 | Boswell concludes the account of their visit by satisfying a little further his search for concord between Johnson and Monboddo — each had a black servant . |
| 30 | Rashid had left the flat only once , to go by taxi to the Syrian Embassy to press further his application for asylum , and on that occasion , while he had talked and drunk coffee in an inner office his two daughters had sat outside with their colouring books and crayons . |